Olaf Hering <olh@xxxxxxx> wrote:We have another idea how to reimplement it via refcounters instead of lists. But I'm not sure when this will happen, due to lack of time :(On Tue, Jan 17, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
Olaf, can you please check if my patch for busy inodes from -mm tree helps you?I cant reprpoduce it at will, thats the thing. It likely happens with NFS
mounts. agruen@xxxxxxx did some work recently. But I remember even with
these changes (for a 2.6.13), the busy inodes did not disappear.
Merging your patch into our cvs will give it more testing, I will do
that tomorrow if noone disagrees.
The patch is certainly safe and stable. But it's so huge and complex and
ugly that I was hoping that a better fix would turn up. The bug itself
takes quite some ingenuity to hit.